Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B6074 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R. Maker: Theodore I Laskaris; Nicaea Denomination: Aspron Trachy Nomisma Place made: Eurasia: Bursa, Iznik Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1208-1212? Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 3.2 Weight (g): 3.57 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0850. ex. James R. Stewart Collection, 30th January 1968, previously ex. E. Gans, 1949. |
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Description: Obverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne with back; holds Gospels in l. hand. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l. and of St. Theodore, bearded and nimbate, holding between them long shaft, at head of which a star; emperor wears stemma, divitision, jeweled loros of simplified type and sagion; holds sheathed sword, point downward, in r. hand; Saint wears short military tunic, breastplate and sagion; holds sheathed sword, point downward, in l. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: None Visible.
Bibliography: DOC IV.2.2.3
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